BACKGROUND Little has been done to ensure that the foods sold within health care facilities promote healthy lifestyles. Policies to improve school nutrition environments can serve as models for health care organizations. OBJECTIVE This study was designed to assess the healthfulness of foods sold in health care facility vending machines as well as how health care organizations are using polici...

UTRITION SUPPORT—total parenteral nutrition (TPN) and enteral nutrition (tube feedings)—is not for everybody undergoing surgery. Although giving nutrition support before and after surgery can decrease postoperative morbidity and mortality, several well-designed studies showed that certain subsets of surgical patients suffer worse outcomes with TPN than with standard care.1–4 Therefore, it is im...

BACKGROUND Among people living with HIV/AIDS, nutritional support is increasingly recognized as a critical part of the essential package of care, especially for patients in sub-Saharan Africa. The objectives of the study were to evaluate the outcomes of HIV-positive malnourished adults treated with ready-to-use therapeutic food and to identify factors associated with nutrition programme failure...

Introduction: Changing lifestyle, physical inactivity, and obesity lead to increased diabetes prevalence in the elderly. Diabetes management involves self-care activities, such as medical nutrition therapy, physical activity, use of pharmacologic agent, self-monitoring of blood glucose, foot care, and smoking cessation. Physiological, biological, mental changes that show up with aging and the p...

I N 2013, THE ACADEMY OF Nutrition and Dietetics (Academy) entered into a joint project with Avalere Health to improve quality of care in the US health system by recognizing the unaddressed area of malnutrition. Together the Academy and Avalere Health have embarked on a collaborative journey to advance high-quality, patient-driven care for hospitalized adults aged 65 years and older who are mal...

Nutrition care and metabolic control contribute to clinical patient outcomes. Biomedical informatics applications represent a way to potentially improve quality and efficiency of nutrition management. We performed a systematic literature review to identify clinical decision support and computerized provider order entry systems used to manage nutrition care. Online research databases were search...

Background: There is evidence that early enteral nutrition can improve clinical outcomes in patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of early enteral nutrition on clinical outcomes in medical patients admitted to the intensive care unit. Materials and Methods: This prospective study was performed on 94 patients admitted t...